This church is on the highest point in the Blandford Community in what is
now known as Petersburg. The church was an Anglican Church built before
the American Revolution. During the American Revolution British troops
were buried in the churchyard. After the American Revolution the church
became an Episcopal Church, but was eventually closed as a new church was
built. During the Petersburg siege this position was used for observation
by CS leaders and the church yard became a cemetery for over 30,000 CSA
dead (most are unknown). The building was damaged and rebuilt/remodeled
over the years. No photos are permitted inside. Louis Tiffany created
stained glass windows in the building with a stained-glass window
representing the 12 apostles and the 12 Confederate states. There is one
stained-glass window with just the Holy Cross to represent the 13th
Confederate state and a window for the Ladies Memorial Association of
Petersburg

This monument and plot is dedicated to the Confederate Washington
Artillery of New Orleans. Names of members of this unit are listed on the
monument and their bodies are located in the plot. Almost all of the
30,000 + Confederate soldier graves in the Blandford Cemetery are unknown,
but this is the notable exception

This state of Virginia monument is located on a hill in Blandford Cemetery
very close to the site of the graves of literally thousands of Virginia
Confederate soldiers whose names and locations of burial are known but to
God

This photo was taken on July 5, 2013 in the late afternoon with very
little wind so the flag is difficult to see, but it is a Second National
Confederate flag which is sometimes referred to as the Stainless Banner.
The flagpole and small monument beneath are located very close to the
Virginia Confederate Monument at Blandford Cemetery

Just behind this large imposing monument lie the remains of approximately
30,000 Confederate soldiers who are largely buried in unmarked graves
during the war, but were interred in areas by state. It may be possible to
see a few individual markers, but by and large, there are just markers for
states. There are also wartime Confederate graves in front of and to the
side of the large monument. In other parts of the cemetery there are
graves of Confederate veterans who survived the war and died later. When
Confederate General William Mahone died, he requested his body be buried
with the man he commanded during the siege of Petersburg so although I'm
not a wartime death he is buried in this area. Confederate General William
Mahone, who was a resident of Petersburg, was not the only Confederate to
make such a burial request

The marker in the foreground represents the location where some of the Texas
troops who died during the Petersburg siege were buried. It was impossible
to get the entire sections for deceased Texas troops, or any state for that
matter, in only one photograph. Each of the state plots has a similar marker
and a Confederate flag was placed at each marker during our visit on July 5,
2013

In the background is the mausoleum for Petersburg resident and Confederate
Gen. William Mahone, who served during the siege of Petersburg and made a
special request to be buried among the troops that he commanded who gave
their lives during the war